Monthly Archives: August 2006

The Chief Administrator of the Oromia Regional State, Mr. Abadula Gemeda, was in the Twin Cities in July to meet with members of his community, the business community and supporters of his state. He was accompanied by staff from the Ethiopian embassy in Washington. Mr. Gemeda is also chairman of the Oromo People’s Democratic Organization (OPDO), one of the four parties that form the coalition called the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) which is currently in power in Ethiopia.

In 1994, a group of girls and women got together, in response to the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing, China, creating an organization, Girls International Forum (GIF). The organization has been instrumental in empowering girls to take on issues affecting girls across the globe.

 If you lend money to your closely held corporation or to a member of your family, be sure to handle the transaction with all of the formalities of an "arm's-length" loan to a stranger. The IRS carefully scrutinizes loans where the lender and the borrower are "related."

As we approach the 2007 general elections in Kenya, non-residents are grappling with the question of wither the country goes come January 2008.  Debate of the precise role of hundreds of thousands of Kenyans abroad has begun in earnest. A recent, widely circulated article by presidential aspirant Joseph Nyagah was no surprise. He exhorted the Kibaki administration to “involve Kenyans abroad in tackling the country’s problems”.